{"id":735,"date":"2026-03-18T14:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.predictleads.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:46:03","slug":"technographic-data-vs-firmographic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-vs-firmographic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Technographic vs. Firmographic Data: Differences and How to Combine Them (October 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#5b3d70;margin:0 0 18px;\">By Robert Fon \/ Updated October 13, 2026<\/p>\n\n<p>Technographic vs. firmographic data comes down to one distinction: firmographic data describes what a company is (industry, size, revenue, and location), while technographic data provides evidence of which technologies it uses or has recently used. Most target lists start and stop with firmographics, which is why so many well-fitting accounts turn out to use a stack your product cannot work with. Use firmographics to confirm an account can buy, and technographics to confirm it can use what you sell. This guide compares the two field by field, shows where each fails alone, and gives you a framework for applying them in the right order.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f3ecf8;border-left:4px solid #76508e;border-radius:10px;padding:16px 20px;margin:20px 0;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;\"><strong>TLDR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;\">\n<li>Firmographic data describes what a company is: industry, headcount, revenue range, location, and corporate structure.<\/li>\n<li>Technographic data provides evidence of which technologies a company uses or has recently used, with a source and first and last seen dates on each detection.<\/li>\n<li>Firmographics change slowly and tell you whether an account fits your ICP; technographics change with every adoption and tell you whether its stack fits your product.<\/li>\n<li>Filter by firmographics first when your product works with any stack; start from a technology when your product integrates with or replaces a specific tool.<\/li>\n<li>PredictLeads keys both on the company domain: 133,531,593 companies in 208 countries, plus 2,003,496,359 active technology detections across 73,189 live technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>What Firmographic Data Is<\/h2>\n\n<p>Firmographic data is a set of attributes that describe a company&#8217;s identity and scale: industry, employee count, revenue range, headquarters location, founding year, ownership, and corporate structure. It is the company-level equivalent of demographics, and it is the layer most CRMs fill first.<\/p>\n\n<p>Industry usually maps to a standard code system such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/naics\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)<\/a>. Revenue and headcount for public companies trace back to filings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/edgar\/search\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEC EDGAR<\/a>; for private companies they are estimates, usually expressed as ranges.<\/p>\n\n<p>What firmographics leave out is how a company works. Two 500-person software companies in the same city can share every firmographic field and still use different CRMs, data warehouses, and cloud providers.<\/p>\n\n<p>The PredictLeads Companies dataset carries these attributes as NAICS6 codes, revenue ranges (low and high), employee ranges, structured <code>location_data<\/code>, and parent and subsidiary relationships across 133,531,593 companies in 208 countries.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Technographic Data, Briefly<\/h2>\n\n<p>Technographic data is a structured record of the technologies a company uses or has recently used, built from public evidence such as script tags, cookies, DNS records, IP ranges, and job descriptions. Each detection is evidence with a source and a date, not proof that a tool is active today. This page focuses on how it compares with firmographics; for the full definition, collection sources, and record fields, read our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data\/\">what technographic data is<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>PredictLeads catalogs 73,189 live technologies in 302 categories and flags evidence found outside website code, such as a CRM named in job descriptions, with the <code>behind_firewall<\/code> field.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Technographic vs. Firmographic Data: A Side-by-Side Comparison<\/h2>\n\n<p>Firmographic data tells you whether an account fits your ICP; technographic data tells you whether its stack fits your product. The table goes past definitions to how each type is sourced, how it goes stale, and how you check it.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto;margin:20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<caption style=\"caption-side:top;text-align:left;font-weight:700;color:#5b3d70;padding:0 0 8px;\">Technographic vs. firmographic data across nine dimensions<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Dimension<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Firmographic data<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Technographic data<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Core question<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Can this account buy from us?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Can this account use what we sell?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Typical fields<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Industry code, employee range, revenue range, location, parent company<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Technology, category, source, first and last seen dates, source count<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Where it comes from<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Company websites, filings, registries, and estimates<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Script tags, cookies, DNS records, IP ranges, and job descriptions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Pace of change<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Slow: headcount and revenue move over quarters; industry rarely changes<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Continuous: tools appear and stop being detected all year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>What stale looks like<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">An employee range that lags a hiring push or a layoff<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">A last seen date that stopped advancing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Main error source<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Estimated revenue and headcount for private companies<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Internal tools with no public signature; ambiguous job-description mentions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>How to verify<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Compare with filings or the company&#8217;s own site<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Open the source URL; check source count and last seen date<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Change worth watching<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Headcount growth, acquisitions, rebrands<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">New detections and tools no longer detected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#efe4f6;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Best used for<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Market sizing, territories, routing, ICP fit<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Displacement, integration targeting, stack-specific messaging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Intent and contact data answer two more questions, what an account is researching and who works there. Our technographic data guide compares all four types in one table.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Where Each Data Type Fails on Its Own<\/h2>\n\n<p>Each data type produces a list that looks right and still wastes rep time, in a different way. Take a vendor whose product integrates with cloud data warehouses.<\/p>\n\n<h3>A Firmographic-Only List<\/h3>\n\n<p>The vendor pulls US software companies with 201 to 1,000 employees. Every account fits the ICP on paper. The list still includes companies with no evidence of any data warehouse, and companies with evidence of a warehouse the product does not support. Firmographics confirm an account can buy; they cannot tell you whether it can use the product.<\/p>\n\n<h3>A Technographic-Only List<\/h3>\n\n<p>The vendor pulls every company with a Snowflake detection instead. Now the list mixes a six-person consultancy whose job descriptions mention Snowflake for client work, a 40,000-employee enterprise with a procurement cycle the sales team is not staffed for, and companies outside every territory. Technology evidence shows fit with the product, not fit with your go-to-market.<\/p>\n\n<p>PredictLeads tags job-description evidence with <code>behind_firewall<\/code> and <code>department_onet_codes<\/code>, so you can see which team asked for a tool before treating a mention as usage.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How to Combine Technographic and Firmographic Data<\/h2>\n\n<p>Combine them as sequential filters: one narrows the universe, the other qualifies it, and a timing signal decides who goes first.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Which Filter to Apply First<\/h3>\n\n<p>Start with whichever filter is more restrictive for your product: firmographics when you can sell to any stack, technographics when your product depends on one.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto;margin:20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<caption style=\"caption-side:top;text-align:left;font-weight:700;color:#5b3d70;padding:0 0 8px;\">Which filter to apply first, by go-to-market scenario<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Scenario<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Start with<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Then apply<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Your product works with any stack<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Firmographic: size, industry, region<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Technographic: tailor messaging to the tools detected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Your product integrates with one platform<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Technographic: companies with evidence of that platform<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Firmographic: size and region fit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">You are displacing a competitor<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Technographic: competitor detected with a recent last seen date<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Firmographic fit, then timing signals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">You are sizing a market<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Firmographic: the full addressable universe<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Technographic: share of accounts with evidence of each tool in the category<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Starting from a technology is a reverse lookup; our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/find-companies-using-technology\/\">finding every company using a technology by name<\/a> walks through it. For switch-focused lists, use the <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-b2b-competitor-displacement\/\">competitor displacement playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h3>A Four-Step Workflow<\/h3>\n\n<figure style=\"margin:20px 0;\">\n<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 720 230\" width=\"100%\" role=\"img\" aria-labelledby=\"pl-flow-title pl-flow-desc\" style=\"max-width:720px;height:auto;display:block;\">\n<title id=\"pl-flow-title\">Four steps to combine firmographic and technographic data<\/title>\n<desc id=\"pl-flow-desc\">Flow diagram with four steps: 1, set the firmographic floor by industry, size, revenue, and region; 2, add the technographic qualifier, a tool or rival seen recently; 3, add a timing signal such as hiring, funding, or a news event; 4, verify sources and route each segment to matching messaging.<\/desc>\n<defs>\n<marker id=\"pl-flow-arrow\" viewBox=\"0 0 10 10\" refX=\"9\" refY=\"5\" markerWidth=\"7\" markerHeight=\"7\" orient=\"auto\"><path d=\"M0,0 L10,5 L0,10 z\" fill=\"#9a78b0\"\/><\/marker>\n<\/defs>\n<rect x=\"0\" y=\"0\" width=\"720\" height=\"230\" rx=\"14\" fill=\"#f3ecf8\"\/>\n<g font-family=\"'Poppins','Segoe UI',system-ui,sans-serif\">\n<text x=\"24\" y=\"38\" font-size=\"19\" font-weight=\"800\" fill=\"#3a2f4d\">Firmographic fit, then stack fit, then timing<\/text>\n<rect x=\"24\" y=\"64\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" rx=\"12\" fill=\"#ffffff\" stroke=\"#ece0f5\" stroke-width=\"2\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"90\" r=\"14\" fill=\"#76508e\"\/>\n<text x=\"45\" y=\"95\" font-size=\"14\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">1<\/text>\n<text x=\"36\" y=\"128\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#5b3d70\">Firmographic<\/text>\n<text x=\"36\" y=\"147\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#5b3d70\">floor<\/text>\n<text x=\"36\" y=\"172\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#3a2f4d\">Industry, size,<\/text>\n<text x=\"36\" y=\"188\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#3a2f4d\">revenue, region<\/text>\n<line x1=\"176\" y1=\"133\" x2=\"196\" y2=\"133\" stroke=\"#9a78b0\" stroke-width=\"2\" marker-end=\"url(#pl-flow-arrow)\"\/>\n<rect x=\"198\" y=\"64\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" rx=\"12\" fill=\"#ffffff\" stroke=\"#ece0f5\" stroke-width=\"2\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"224\" cy=\"90\" r=\"14\" fill=\"#76508e\"\/>\n<text x=\"219\" y=\"95\" font-size=\"14\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">2<\/text>\n<text x=\"210\" y=\"128\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#5b3d70\">Technographic<\/text>\n<text x=\"210\" y=\"147\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#5b3d70\">qualifier<\/text>\n<text x=\"210\" y=\"172\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#3a2f4d\">Tool or rival with<\/text>\n<text x=\"210\" y=\"188\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#3a2f4d\">a recent last seen<\/text>\n<line x1=\"350\" y1=\"133\" x2=\"370\" y2=\"133\" stroke=\"#9a78b0\" stroke-width=\"2\" marker-end=\"url(#pl-flow-arrow)\"\/>\n<rect x=\"372\" y=\"64\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" rx=\"12\" fill=\"#ffffff\" stroke=\"#ece0f5\" stroke-width=\"2\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"398\" cy=\"90\" r=\"14\" fill=\"#76508e\"\/>\n<text x=\"393\" y=\"95\" font-size=\"14\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">3<\/text>\n<text x=\"384\" y=\"128\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#5b3d70\">Timing<\/text>\n<text x=\"384\" y=\"147\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#5b3d70\">signal<\/text>\n<text x=\"384\" y=\"172\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#3a2f4d\">Hiring, funding,<\/text>\n<text x=\"384\" y=\"188\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#3a2f4d\">or a news event<\/text>\n<line x1=\"524\" y1=\"133\" x2=\"544\" y2=\"133\" stroke=\"#9a78b0\" stroke-width=\"2\" marker-end=\"url(#pl-flow-arrow)\"\/>\n<rect x=\"546\" y=\"64\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" rx=\"12\" fill=\"#76508e\"\/>\n<circle cx=\"572\" cy=\"90\" r=\"14\" fill=\"#ffffff\"\/>\n<text x=\"567\" y=\"95\" font-size=\"14\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#76508e\">4<\/text>\n<text x=\"558\" y=\"128\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">Verify<\/text>\n<text x=\"558\" y=\"147\" font-size=\"15\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">and route<\/text>\n<text x=\"558\" y=\"172\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#ffffff\">Check sources,<\/text>\n<text x=\"558\" y=\"188\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#ffffff\">match the message<\/text>\n<\/g>\n<\/svg>\n<figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#5b3d70;margin-top:6px;\">Apply the more restrictive filter first; the order of steps 1 and 2 can swap.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Set the firmographic floor.<\/strong> Filter by industry code, employee range, revenue range, and the regions you sell into. This removes accounts that cannot buy, whatever their stack.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add the technographic qualifier.<\/strong> Keep accounts with evidence of a platform you integrate with or a competitor you replace, and require a recent <code>last_seen_at<\/code>, for example within the last 90 days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add a timing signal.<\/strong> Look for hiring in the team that owns the tool, a new financing round, or a news event such as <code>integrates_with<\/code>. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/sales-trigger-events-outbound-timing\/\">sales trigger events and outbound timing<\/a> covers which triggers to watch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Verify and route.<\/strong> Spot-check source URLs on a sample of accounts, then route each segment to messaging that names the tool it uses. The <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-lead-scoring-guide\/\">technographic lead scoring guide<\/a> shows how to weight each signal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>For marketing programs built on the same segments, see <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/account-based-marketing-technographic-data\/\">account-based marketing with technographic data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How PredictLeads Delivers Firmographic and Technographic Data<\/h2>\n\n<p>PredictLeads is a B2B company intelligence and technographic data provider that delivers firmographic and technographic data on the same company record, keyed on the domain, so you join them without fuzzy name matching.<\/p>\n\n<div role=\"group\" aria-label=\"PredictLeads firmographic and technographic coverage, October 2026\" style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;background:#f3ecf8;border-radius:14px;padding:16px;margin:20px 0 6px;\">\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 200px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">133,531,593<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">companies tracked<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 200px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">208<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">countries covered<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 200px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">2,003,496,359<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">active technology detections<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 200px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">73,189<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">live technologies (254,367 ever cataloged)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 200px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">302<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">technology categories<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#5b3d70;margin:0 0 18px;\">PredictLeads firmographic and technographic coverage, October 2026.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firmographics (Companies):<\/strong> NAICS6 codes, revenue ranges, employee ranges, <code>location_data<\/code>, parent and subsidiary companies, and <code>redirects_to<\/code> with a reason (acquisition_merger, locality, or rebranding) when a domain changes. The discover companies endpoint filters by location and size.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technographics (Technology Detections):<\/strong> five evidence sources, <code>behind_firewall<\/code>, <code>source_count<\/code>, <code>first_seen_at<\/code>, and <code>last_seen_at<\/code>, plus a reverse lookup to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.predictleads.com\/api_endpoints\/technology_detections_dataset\/retrieve_companies_using_specific_technology_id_or_fuzzy_name\">find companies using a specific technology<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Timing on the same record:<\/strong> Job Openings (279.2M+ records since 2018), News Events, and Financing Events.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delivery:<\/strong> API, flat files, webhooks, and MCP. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/company-data-api-flat-files-webhooks-mcp\/\">company data delivery by API, flat files, webhooks, and MCP<\/a> compares the four.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>PredictLeads collects publicly available information only, keeps personal data out of its company intelligence datasets, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/security\">SOC 2 Type II certified<\/a> and GDPR and CCPA compliant. To compare dedicated vendors, see our roundup of <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-providers\/\">technographic data providers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n<h3>What is the difference between technographic and firmographic data?<\/h3>\n\n<p>Firmographic data describes what a company is: its industry, headcount, revenue range, location, and corporate structure. Technographic data provides evidence of which technologies the company uses or has recently used, such as its CRM, cloud provider, or data warehouse. Firmographics answer whether an account fits your ICP, and technographics answer whether its stack fits your product. PredictLeads delivers both on the same record, keyed on the company domain.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Which matters more for B2B sales in 2026, technographic or firmographic data?<\/h3>\n\n<p>Neither replaces the other; which one leads depends on your product. If you can sell to a company regardless of its tools, firmographics define the list and technographics shape the message. If your product integrates with or replaces a specific tool, technographics define the list and firmographics check fit. 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